Gate-spring



(No Model.)

M. KIOUS 8v W. A. MORTON.

GATE SPRING.

Patented. Sept. 29, 1885.

vINVFMOR N. PETERS. Pholo-Ulhuguphef, Wuhingon. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT GEEICEo MILES KIOUS AND IVILLIAM ALFRED MORTON, OFLE ROY, KANSAS.

GATE-SPRING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 327,445, datedSeptember 29, 1885.

Application inea May 29, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom. it may concern,.-

Be it known that we, MILEs Kroos and WILLIAM ALFRED MoRToN, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Le Roy, in the county of Coffey and Stateof Kansas, have invented cer'tain new and useful Improvements inGate-Springs, of` which the following is a description.

This invention relates to that class of devices which are designed toautomatically close gates and doors and its object is to close gates anddoors which have been opened the amount common in use, and to hold themopen when they are opened to their full extent.

To this end our invention consists in the construction and combinationof parts forming a gate-spring, hereinafter described and claimed,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figui e 1 isa front elevation of a gate, showing our spring attached. Fig. 2 is anenlarged AveW, in front elevation, of the spring in servite, and Fig. 3is a plan view of the same.

U represents a gate-post. B is a gate hinged ia any usual way thereto,and A is the jambpost. D is our spring, consisting 'of a wire coiled afew turns near one end, E, bent in the reverse direction to the coilalong the body F into t'le shape of a U, and bent into an eye, G, at itsother end. At the coil end the wire is offset at a right angle with theplanes of the coils. The offset H is to be driven into the gate-postnear the hinge-joint of the gate. A screw, J, with a large washer, K, onit, is passed through the coil into the post, the washer being largeenough to hold the spring in place. The free end is secured to the gatein a loose connection by means of the eye G and a staple, L, passingthrough the eye into the gate.

The hinge-pin M of the gate is, as usual, a little in front of the faceof the gate, and the staple projects as far or farther from the samface.

The action of the spring is to push in the direction of the arrow, sothat it acts to close the gate until the latter is thrown so wide openthat the staple passes the hinge-center, then the strain of the springbeing on the opposite side of the hinge-pin the gate is held openthereby.

This device is useful on all styles of doors and gates, being readilyadaptable in proportion, to the lightest or the heaviest, and being bothcheap and easily applied.

0f course an eye and nail or screw might be substituted for the bent endH, as a point of resistance against which the spring acts from the postto the gate.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The combination of a gate hinged to a post, the pivot of the hinge beingin front of the plane of the face of the gate, a spring coiled into aspiral near one end, a screw passing through the coil into thegate-post, a washer on the screw over the coil, means for fastening theend of the coil to the post, the spring bent along its body into theshape of a U turned on its side and provided with an eye at its freeend, and a staple connecting the said eye with the gate outside of thefront face thereof, substantially as shown and described.

MILES KIOUS. WILLIAM ALFRED MORTON. r

Witnesses:

E. RoBINsoN, A. HEININGEE.

